Brendan Rodgers is happy for Daniel Sturridge to join up with England next week – but he will tell the Football Association the striker is not ready to play in both the upcoming Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania.

England manager Roy Hodgson names his squad for the final two qualification games on Thursday.

Rodgers would have no qualms with Hodgson if he selected the 26-year-old, but given that he has just come back from a five-month injury lay-off, the Liverpool manager feels his star striker must be used sparingly.

England play against Estonia at Wembley on October 9 before flying to Lithuania three days later, and Rodgers feels it would be too much to ask the player to feature in both games.

“Not at the moment, no,” Rodgers said when asked if Sturridge could play two games in four days.

Rodgers and Hodgson have not enjoyed the best of relationships over the course of the last year.

The Northern Irishman plans to speak to Hodgson about Sturridge’s fitness this week, and he appears relaxed on the idea of the former Chelsea man joining up with England at St George’s Park next Tuesday.

“The guys with England are intelligent enough and will understand and I am sure at some point we will have a conversation before they meet up,” Rodgers added.

“I don’t necessarily speak so much with the international managers. When players go away I let them deal with it. They are highly-qualified professionals who work at that level.

“In Daniel’s case it is probably worth me noting to the FA where he is at in this period of his fitness.

“He is a player who is coming back [from injury] and Roy and his staff are intelligent enough to see that and I am sure him being in the squad will be managed accordingly.”